How Can Twitter Not Be Profitable

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Something keeps bothering me about Twitter losing money. The company claims 330 million active monthly users. If they were overly optimistic, or using a very generous definition of “active,” lets cut that in half to 150 million active users each month. Now, if they could earn just $1 per user, that would be $150 million … Read more

I’m On Ello, Now What?

So, by now, you’ve probably heard of Ello. Ello, which I’m guessing is “hello” without the h, is a new, privacy-focused social network. Specifically, Ello has picked up traction recently because of Facebook’s real name policy and the fact that commercial social networks such as Twitter and Facebook sell out your information in order to … Read more

Twitter Retweeting Your Favorites Right or Wrong

Twitter has come under some scrutiny lately after people started noticing that Twitter was essentially turning some of your favorites into retweets. Most people instantly reacted that this was a terrible idea and that Twitter should be ashamed of itself. While it’s true that Twitter should be ashamed of the half-hearted way they handle abuse … Read more

Why Some People Hate Manual Retweets

There are many different reasons people use Twitter. Depending on why and how you use Twitter, you may have come across an interesting phenomenon where some people are very particular about how you retweet them. Twitter Retweet Etiquette When it comes to Twitter, there really aren’t any hard and fast rules. That being said, there … Read more

Why Everyone Got LinkedIn Top 5 Percent Email

There is a bit of cloud brewing on Twitter and elsewhere over an email sent by LinkedIn. In the email, the company congratulates the user for having one of the “top 5% most viewed profiles.” The catch is that it is starting to seem like “everyone” got one of these emails. LinkedIn Top 5 Percent … Read more

Social Search Fools Gold

These days, it seems that technology pundits and enthusiasts can’t clamor loudly enough for social network signals to be included in search engine ranking results. It isn’t hard to see why. Your friends probably like a lot of the same things that you do. That is why they are your friends. Furthermore, the people you … Read more

Things I Need to Read

Here is a partial list of the things I need to read to stay on top of all the things from my Twitter feed that I have found interesting or that I think I need to know for business or personal reasons. I use the "Star" function in TweetDeck to bookmark tweets that I want … Read more

HootSuite Pro Release Kicks Off Free Users

I was a big fan of HootSuite. HootSuite is a web-based service that you can use to manage multiple Twitter user streams. It also works on several other services as well, although I really only use it for my numerous Twitter accounts. HootSuite was a free service that allowed users to manage several streams at … Read more

Google Buzz Gmail Fails Against Facebook & Twitter

Google’s recent attempt to crack the social networking market comes courtesy of an ill-conceived service titled Google Buzz. The idea is that that Buzz provides similar status updates, and shared links, and so on, right inside of your Google email account. Of course, it is this very concept that dooms Google Buzz to failure, and … Read more

Amazon Affiliates Shuts Down Twitter and Link Shorteners

Update: It seems that Amazon is going out of its way to make me look foolish 🙂  Just kidding. Actually, just got an email update, partially excerpted below, from the Amazon Associates folks about a new way that the affiliate program will integrate directly with Twitter. Basically, it makes the rest of this post moot, … Read more

RTwE Means Re-Tweet With Edits

I can’t ever properly Re-Tweet a truly interesting Tweet.  That is because truly interesting tweets come from people who care about Tweeting interesting things.  That means they don’t necessarily care about chopping their tweet down small enough to be re-Tweetable like those who care more about getting exposure and re-tweets than putting up interesting things … Read more